Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander, Engine of Logistics and Spanish Foreign Trade

 

La Boluda Container Terminal in the port of Santander he received the FINE Award (Promotion of the Spanish Naval Industry) in the category Ports and TerminalsThis recognition took place in the Navantia Dock Museum (Cadiz), coinciding with the second edition of Maritime Blue Growth (MGB), the international congress focused on the transition to a maritime economy blue, circular and regenerative.

 

The award was accepted by the president of Boluda Shipping, Ignacio Boluda, who attended accompanied by the president of Boluda Corporación Marítima, Vicente Boludaand the CEO of BMT, Gonzalo CaleroThe FINE awards seek to highlight the work of professionals, institutions and companies that contribute to development, innovation and strengthening of the maritime industry in Spain.

 

The Port Authority of Santander (APS) showed its firm support to the shipping company during the ceremony, with its president in attendance, Cesar DiazDíaz congratulated the company and emphasized that the recognition is "more than deserved" by "Excellent work" developed in recent years.

 

 

The award, presented at the Maritime Blue Growth (MGB) congress in Cadiz, recognizes the company's excellent work at the Port of Santander, which it has managed to position in record time "on the verge of the top ten in Spain for container traffic."

 

 

"In just two years, Boluda has positioned our port on the cusp of the top ten in Spain for container traffic.", he claimed Cesar Diaz, president of the APS.

 

The top representative of the APS stressed that Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander It is proving to be one of the logistics platforms more efficient and competitive of our country, achieving "exceeding the best forecasts" in a remarkably short time. Furthermore, he emphasized the terminal's contribution to strengthening of companies of its area of ​​influence (hinterland).

 

"It is a source of pride to have a company in our port that is contributing, with increasing strength, to the strengthening of companies in our hinterland."Díaz added.

 

The growth of BMT Santander Since its start of operations in the Cantabrian dock, it has been continuous, not only in traffic and growth forecast, but also in "continuous investments in machinery, field expansions or facilities".

 

The APS, for its part, has worked to propitiate this increased activity, with various complementary investments. Among them, the commissioning of a two-track Iberian gauge railway siding, with an investment of 1,7 millones de euros, and the Expansion of tracks for container cranes in Raos 3 ($2,5$ millions of euros), which allows that two container ships working simultaneously, reducing so transit times.

 

At present, Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander offers three weekly scalesconnecting the port with essential routes such as Portugal-Cádiz-Canary Islands; Dublin-Liverpool; and Tilbury-Rotterdam. This last connection, via the Rotterdam hubResults crucial for foreign trade from Cantabria when linking the Cantabrian dock with the rest of the world.